It’s time to repeal the gun industry’s exceptional legal immunity

[Lee-Lee]

113. There are strong laws in place and a whole Federal agency whose job it is to do that

If all these bad dealers exist as you claim:

Why do you give the BATFE a pass for not prosecuting the dealers and straw buyers and instead Blair gun makers who have far less authority?

Why do you give the BATFE a pass on allowing the dealers to keep a license?

How, exactly, do you know a shop is "shady" by going in and looking around? Tell me if you were in charge of this stupid new policy you advocate what standards would you use to judge a shop is "good" or "shady". Be specific. If you can't name it, then yor advocating something you don't even understand. Is it if they have decorations you don't like? Too many "thugs" in the customer base? Dirty windows?

Your looking for any way to blame gun makers and grasping at really weak straws while giving both the BATFE and DOJ a complete free pass for failing to enforce the actual laws you claim are being broken by these shops, and instead wanting to create a really weak arguement to blame gun makers.

Your basic arguement is that if laws are being broken then we need to blame a person who made the gun who may be 1-5 or more steps in the chain removed from the person breaking the law and make them bear responsibility, instead of just demanding the BATFE do their job in enforcement and more importantly demanding that the DOJ force the US Attornies to actually prosecute straw buyers and dealers who knowingly break the law.

Right now less than 1% of people who break the law and commit perjury trying to buy a gun illegally and get stopped by a background check get prosecuted for that crime, and most cases of straw buyers don't get prosecuted. As a deputy I had a taped confession of a straw buyer I took to the Feds and they said it wasn't worth their time to prosecute her. It's a Federal law so I couldn't do it, so she got away with doing a straw purchase for a man who had a domestic violence restraining order against him. That she didn't get prosecuted wasn't the dealers fault, he was mad that he got duped by her and cooperated fully, it wasn't the manufacturers fault, it was the BATFE and US Attorney who didn't think prosecuting a straw buyer was worth the effort.